Book and take a single trip in United Economy where the purchased fare is at least $275, and I can get 8,100 bonus miles. Travel must be completed by 12 January 2018.

If I were to take that at face value, that’d be earning 1,925 miles on the base fare (5x + 2x as a Premier Silver, courtesy of Marriott Platinum status), and 8,100 bonus miles – nearly 30x miles if you can find the right fare!

Mile Play Terms and Conditions

If there’s one thing I’ve learned, you must always read the terms and conditions. These are not actually too bad, again, surprisingly.

Qualifying trip requirements include:

Trip (as defined below) booking must be made after registration.

All flight activity for applicable Trip must be complete on or prior to January 12, 2018.

Each Trip must have a fare (as defined below) equal to or greater than $275.

The final fare for the Trip will be used to determine satisfaction of offer requirements, including itinerary changes that result in an increase or decrease to the fare and paid upgrades that result in an increase to the fare.

Now the key here though is what is the definition of a “fare”? United states:

For this promotion, only dollars spent on the “fare” on eligible flights operated by United® and United Express® will qualify toward meeting spending milestones. Certain specialty tickets, including but not limited to unpublished, consolidator/bulk, group, tour and opaque fares, will not be counted towards spending milestones. Dollars spent on tickets purchased for flights operated by Star Alliance™ member airline or a United MileagePlus® partner airline with tickets issued by United (ticket number starting with “016”) will not qualify for this offer. The “fare” is the base fare of the ticket plus carrier-imposed surcharges, excluding any government-imposed taxes and surcharges. For tickets purchased in a currency other than U.S. dollars, we will convert the purchase to U.S. dollars using an industry standard exchange rate.Please note that the price displayed when purchasing a ticket on united.com includes up to a 7.5% U.S. Federal Transportation Tax on the base amount of the fare on itineraries wholly within the United States. This tax also applies to certain itineraries between the United States and Canada or Mexico.

That blue part is the important part here. In other words, this isn’t $275 out of pocket. This is $275 after excluding government-imposed taxes and surcharges like the US September 11th Security Fee ($11.20). How does this translate to how much you actually have to pay? Take a look at this $322.40 fare from Washington, DC to Orlando, FL:

This fare for example looks like it misses that $275 minimum. Looking at Fare 1 and Fare 2, they total $273.49. All the rest of that $322.40? Its still money out of your pocket, but it doesn’t necessarily count for the promotion.

Bottom Line

Overall, I love seeing nice, simple promotions like this. Find a $275 fare (after excluding any government imposed taxes), on United or United Express operated aircraft, and get yourself 8,100 miles. I’m not sure whether I’ll be able to do this one myself, but, it does have me looking to see what United can do for me between now and 12 January!

I don’t usually get excited about small credit card offers like this, but, its not very often we see something for the Marriott Credit Card. This isn’t nearly as good as the Discover Apple Pay promotion a few years back–which I bought an iPhone for by the way!

Marriott Rewards Credit Card Apple Pay promotion

The promotion is pretty simple – use Apple Pay to make 5 purchases with your Marriott Rewards Credit Card between 15 May and 15 June and you’ll get a $15 statement credit.

The terms are fairly straight forward, see pasted below:

Offer: This offer is valid from 05/15/2017 through 06/15/2017. To qualify for this offer, you must make 5 transactions using your consumer Marriott Rewards® credit card with your Apple Pay® account during checkout. Purchases are when you, or an authorized user, use a card to make purchases of products and services, minus returns or refunds. Please allow up to 8 weeks after the qualifying purchase(s) post(s) to your account for the statement credit to post to your Marriott Rewards® credit account. To receive the statement credit, your account must be open and not in default at the time of fulfillment. If you change your credit card product during the promotional period you will forfeit this offer. This offer is non-transferable. Limit one statement credit per customer or card account. Chase may terminate this offer at any time without notice.

It seems like a pretty easy promotion to do in order to get yourself a $15 statement credit. One caveat – its not clear to me that it is specifically targeted.

Will you be taking advantage of the Marriott Rewards Credit Card Apple Pay promotion?

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